"Now your talking, I'm not highly familiar with these names or resumes --- I'm going to be researching... but this is more like it."
Bill Bratton was responsible for all the NYPD initiatives that eventually returned NYC to a sense of normalcy (at least by NYC standards). He is an ambitious man, and he does have a rivalry with Giuliani going back as to who should take credit for NYC's gains in crime reduction. But if you talk to almost any NYPD cop with "time on" they would say that he was the most innovative and popular leader in the past 20 years.
From all that I've heard, read and seen the guy sounds like a winner. Possibly the most creative law enforcement leader in America. But, like I said earlier, I'm sure there are a slew of other qualified candidates from federal and local with whom I'm not familiar.
"Bill Bratton was responsible for all the NYPD initiatives that eventually returned NYC to a sense of normalcy"
FYI, if you're interested, and interesting piece of Bratton:
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/000608.html
Thursday :: October 03, 2002
NY's William Bratton Named Chief of LAPD \\"The outspoken Mr. Bratton, who ran New York's police department for 27 months from 1994 to 1996 until he was forced out by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, promised in interviews with Mayor James K. Hahn and other city leaders that he would cut Los Angeles's rising crime rate and improve morale in the city's dispirited and distrusted police ranks."